Aureumterra III wrote:

Dayganistan wrote:Great, someone is copypasting ASCII troll faces. At least it's not the pornspammer. Only in P2TM for some reason though.

Unconfirmed rumors it’s a certain player who has a grudge because people didn’t like them raiding discord servers and spam pinging everyone

Tfw offsite drama on NS

Rumours spreading pretty fast huh

Just like the other Discord-related one, where I was supposed to have done something completely out of line with my modus operandi, I am innocent of all charges.

Polish Prussian Commonwealth wrote:

Langenia wrote:
I made mine be a Putin-like guy where democratic backsliding takes place under him.

Hey, you too? Based.

Putin gang

Laka Strolistandiler wrote:

Vladilan wrote:Leaders who are always the "morally right" one always pisses me off, because politicians are never morally right.

Look, that’s the same thing as saying “all leaders must be crazy rich and live in luxury”. Sometimes enforcing IRL rules over NS is not a good thing pal

Overgeneralization is the death of good writing, change my mind

Langenia wrote:-snip-

/ninja'd

Laka Strolistandiler wrote:

Vladilan wrote:Leaders who are always the "morally right" one always pisses me off, because politicians are never morally right.

Look, that’s the same thing as saying “all leaders must be crazy rich and live in luxury”. Sometimes enforcing IRL rules over NS is not a good thing pal

Oh dear God! The ex-President of Uruguay is an NS character.....

Ex-guerilla or military.
Traumatizing past.
Down to Earth.
High approval rating.
Donated most of their salary to the less fortunate.
Left their country better off.
...
They only needed to be a supermodel to tick off all the Bingo boxes.

Alright, it’s time to exercise my inner Grammar Nazi, just a little bit.

People who botch the "its" and "it’s"...

Laka Strolistandiler wrote:

Vladilan wrote:Leaders who are always the "morally right" one always pisses me off, because politicians are never morally right.

Look, that’s the same thing as saying “all leaders must be crazy rich and live in luxury”. Sometimes enforcing IRL rules over NS is not a good thing pal

Jeez, I'm not saying the leader must steal from babies to be "realistic". Also, most leaders do, in fact, live in luxury. What I'm saying is that a one-dimensional benevolent overlord (and for extra pity points have someone close to them die) with massive approval from the people who are never in a scandal is just ridiculous. I'm not saying you can't, I'm just saying it's annoying for people to be amazingly talented at everything.

The Fengtian Government wrote:Alright, it’s time to exercise my inner Grammar Nazi, just a little bit.

People who botch the "its" and "it’s"...

*i'ts

The Fengtian Government wrote:Alright, it’s time to exercise my inner Grammar Nazi, just a little bit.

People who botch the "its" and "it’s"...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
*Brain explodes*

Vladilan wrote:

The Fengtian Government wrote:Alright, it’s time to exercise my inner Grammar Nazi, just a little bit.

People who botch the "its" and "it’s"...

*i'ts

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Players who complain about how they 'unjustly' got warned/banned/DEAT when literally any player with two brain cells can see that whatever punishment they got was totally justified.

Gandoor wrote:Players who complain about how they 'unjustly' got warned/banned/DEAT when literally any player with two brain cells can see that whatever punishment they got was totally justified.

Those who ride off the ban/DEAT, and those that went into a downward spiral from 0-100 very, very quickly.

The Fengtian Government wrote:Alright, it’s time to exercise my inner Grammar Nazi, just a little bit.

People who botch the "its" and "it’s"...

Well to be fair English is really hard to learn in writing with all the grammar rules. And talking is even worse for a non native, especially with someone who doesn't speak standard.

Sophia in England wrote:

The Fengtian Government wrote:Alright, it’s time to exercise my inner Grammar Nazi, just a little bit.

People who botch the "its" and "it’s"...

Well to be fair English is really hard to learn in writing with all the grammar rules. And talking is even worse for a non native, especially with someone who doesn't speak standard.

That is fair. When it is a native speaker, though, barring things like dyslexia/dysgraphia/other conditions, uh. It's just a bruh moment.

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Western Fardelshufflestein wrote:

Sophia in England wrote:
Well to be fair English is really hard to learn in writing with all the grammar rules. And talking is even worse for a non native, especially with someone who doesn't speak standard.

That is fair. When it is a native speaker, though, barring things like dyslexia/dysgraphia/other conditions, uh. It's just a bruh moment.

I don't mind typing mistakes that much to be honest. But when native speakers talk in a really hard to understand way (like JFK immigration lol), that really gives me a headache.

Since we're talking about English grammar now, here's a non-NS cliché: People claiming that English is the 'hardest' language or 'the most difficult language to learn'.

Gandoor wrote:Since we're talking about English grammar now, here's a non-NS cliché: People claiming that English is the 'hardest' language or 'the most difficult language to learn'.

I'm not joking when I say that literally every time I've seen someone spout that nonsense, they eventually admit to being entirely monolingual and only speaking English.

English has been the hardest language I've learned so far though, mainly due to the amount of vocabulary and grammar variations. Though I think Russian might be more difficult because of verb tenses and the sounds.

Gandoor wrote:Since we're talking about English grammar now, here's a non-NS cliché: People claiming that English is the 'hardest' language or 'the most difficult language to learn'.

I'm not joking when I say that literally every time I've seen someone spout that nonsense, they eventually admit to being entirely monolingual and only speaking English.

I've started to learn Polish. It's definitely harder than English.

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English is either the hardest language to learn because of how inconsistent the spelling to sound correspondence can be (as if that's unique to English) and because of all the loanwords (as if other languages don't have loanwords) or it's the easiest language to learn because of the hundreds upon hundreds of millions of people who speak it as a second language.

The important thing is that it's special.

For me English is not the hardest foreign language, although this is probably because I picked it up at a young age. Chinese is harder imo. Korean characters is easy (I learned to read in less than a week), but some of its grammar is hard to grasp. I cna confirm that learning Chinese does help in learning Korean though.

Burmese: Amateurs.


Seriously, my native language can be... utterly confusing. For one, there is this thing called "Written is one meaning, spoken is another," which more or less means that if you speak something literally as written in text, chances are good that the pronunciation can drastically change the meaning.

10 things I hate about the Burmese Language wrote:Oddballs: Words that are pronounced very differently from their spelling
Burmese has a number of words (usually loaned or commonly used ones) whose pronunciations don’t correspond to their spellings. A big example (at least to me) is the word ‘mint,’ (as in mint leaves) which is pronounced pu-si-nan but spelled pu-di-na (ပူဒီနာ). Maybe it’s because the word is originally Hindi. Another is the word ‘turmeric’, which is pronounced sa-nwin but spelled na-nwin (နနွင်း). How did the ‘n’ became an ‘s’?

Going back to the topic, yeah other than the pre-title and some odd bits here and there, you don't seem me using Burmese a lot in my factbooks, the reasons are two-fold:
- You probably cannot see it. It will end up as squares for about 70% of you, I am confident. I could turn them into screenshots, though.
- Valentine Z's national language is a conlang made out of 40+ languages, so it might not make a lot of sense to use Burmese. Maybe I could have my characters speaking one, without making it cringy.

Tibetan is my fave because IIRC the writing system of Tibetan is still based on the phonology of Old Tibetan so most words in the language don't sound like how they're written at all.

Imagine if English was like that, I know the Great Vowel Shift is why a lot of Modern English words don't have 100% spelling to sound correspondence, but imagine if we still spelt words like in Old English but the standard pronunciations was how they're said in ME.

Okay, I think bringing up the botching of the words “its” and “it’s”, inadvertently starting a discussion on grammar in the English language (with mentions of Polish, Burmese and Tibetan), was a mistake.

Eh not really, this thread goes on tangents pretty often and I'd rather a tangent like vs yet another example of this thread turning into a mini-NSG.

Anyways, another one of those 'add micromanagement' suggestions that always get shot down threads.